"AI has not changed the world, not even come close!" - AirBnB founder Brian Chesky checks in with some tough love

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In an age where AI skepticism is tantamount to blasphemy, here’s an eye-catching point of view:

AI has not changed the world, not even come close!

That’s the assessment of Brian Chesky, CEO and co- founder of Airbnb, who predicts that the AI consumer revolution is yet to come. Given that most AI evangelists argue that consumer AI offerings are more widely engaged with than enterprise-level AI, that’s an alternative worldview that needs some exploring.

Using an appearance at this week’s Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, Chesky obliges:

Go to a random state, ask a random person ‘ From the time you wake up to the time you go to bed, how does your life change comes to AI?’...AI has not changed daily life at all, at all. It changed our companies [and] business. It's changed how investors invest. It hasn't changed the world at all.

If that doesn’t...

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